Hiring the lawyer who won a record settlements from gun manufacturers for the Sandy Hook families, the survivors and the families of those killed in the 2022 shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school filed a lawsuit for damages against the manufacture of the gun used, the parent company of Facebook, and the publisher of the Call of Duty game, the Washington Post reports.
Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15-style assault rifle used in the shooting, frequently used children in its marketing. The families claim Activision, which created Call of Duty, and Meta, Facebook parent company, helped market the weapons and violence to the shooter. The lawyer, Josh Koskoff, said Facebook systemically overlooks its own rules against marketing and selling guns on its platform.
“Over the last 15 years, two of America’s largest technology companies — Defendants Activision and Meta — have partnered with the firearms industry in a scheme that makes the Joe Camel campaign look laughably harmless, even quaint,” the families claim in their suit.